Kutztown University’s English department recently acquired the Journal of Dracula Studies, formerly published by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula (Canadian Chapter) and edited by Prof. em. Elizabeth Miller.
This peer-reviewed academic journal is published yearly and features scholarly articles from around the world on Bram Stoker, Dracula, and depictions of vampires in folklore, fiction, film and popular culture.
Editors: Dr. Curt Herr & Dr. Anne DeLong at Kutztown University, Pennsylvania
Number 1 (1999)
From the Order of the Dragon to Dracula (Constantin Rezachevici)
Whose Dracula is it Anyway? Deane, Balderston and the World Famous Vampire Play (Anne-Marie Finn)
Overlooked Pearls: The Blue Oyster Cult and the Vampire in Popular Music (David Hallett & Robin Martin)
Separation Granted, Divorce Denied, Annulment Unlikely (Raymond T McNally)
The Influence of Dracula on the Lesbian Vampire Film (Sharon Russell)
Coffin Nails: Smokers and Non-smokers in Dracula (Elizabeth Miller)
The Image of Transylvania in English Literature (Carmen Maria Andras)
Book Reviews (Nikki White)
Number 2 (2000)
Secrecy as Strategy in Dracula (Jean Marigny)
Desire and Loathing in Bram Stoker's Dracula (Nancy Rosenberg)
Dracula and the Gothic Imagination of War (Bryan Alexander)
Filming Dracula: Vampires, Genre, and Cinematography (Jorg Waltje)
Vampire Crime (Katherine Ramsland)
Book Reviews (Nikki White and Elizabeth Miller)
Number 3 (2001)
Melodrama hath charms: Planche's Theatrical Domestication of Polidori's "The Vampyre" (Katie Harse)
In Search of the Lesbian Vampire: Barbara von Cilli, Le Fanu's "Carmilla" and the Dragon Order (Raymond T. McNally)
Revampings of Dracula in Contemporary Fiction (Margaret L. Carter)
Once Upon the Sleeping Canon: Literary Lustre in Cradle of Filth's Wintry Romances (Julio Angel Olivares Merino)
Blade: A Return to Revisionism (James Craig Holte)
Count Dracula and the Folkloric Vampire: Thirteen Comparisons (Patrick Johnson)
"I am not like other people":Tippi Hedren, Vampires, and Marnie (Victoria Amador)
A View from the Classroom: Why Dracula no longer frightens us (Jenna Harris)
Hutchinson's Colonial Library Edition of Dracula - (revised) (Robert Eighteen-Bisang)
Number4 (2002)
"Unconscious cerebration" and the Happy Ending of Dracula (John Greenway)
Imitations of Immortality: Shadow of the Vampire (James Craig Holte)
The Tomb of Vlad Tepes: The Most Probable Hypothesis (Constantin Rezachevici)
Root Canals: The Neutered Vampire and the Metamorphosis of Undead Metaphor (Chris McGunnigle)
Repulsive Pariah or Romantic Prince? Transforming Monstrosity in Bram Stoker's and Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula (Vrunda Stampwala Sahay)
Xenophobia and its Subversion in Darker Than You Think (Margaret L Carter)
The Question of Immortality: Vampires, Count Dracula and Vlad the Impaler (Elizabeth Miller)
Book Reviews (Nikki White)
Guest Review (Jason Nolan)
Number 5 (2003)
A Race of Devils: Frankenstein, Dracula and Science Fiction (R J Frost)
It's all in the blood: The Bram Stoker/Peter Cushing Alliance (Michael McGlasson)
The Post-Feminist Vampire: A Heroine for the Twenty-First Century (Victoria Amador)
The Dragon, the Raven and the Ring (Michael Vorsino)
Michel Beheim, German Meistergesang, and Dracula (David B Dickens and Elizabeth Miller)
Dracula in the Comics (Perry Lake)
The Journey of the Damned Coffin (Jordi Ardanuy and Luisa Romero)
Book Reviews (Nikki White)
Number 6 (2004)
Vampirism and the Degeneration of the Imperial Race (Monika Tomaszewska)
A Clutch of Vampires: An Examination of Contemporary Dracula Texts (James Craig Holte)
Keeping the Faith: Catholicism in Dracula and its Adaptations (D Bruno Starrs)
Sex, Blood and (Un)Death: The Queer Vampire and HIV (Carlen Lavigne)
Demonizing the Emerging Woman: Misrepresented Morality in Dracula and God's Little Acre (Ashley Craig Lancaster)
From Undead Monster to Sexy Seducer: Physical Sex Appeal in Contemporary Dracula Films (Donald Rottenbucher)
Number 7 (2005)
The Cultural-Historical Origins of the Literary Vampire in Germany (Heide Crawford)
Betwixt Sunset and Sunrise: Liminality in Dracula (Mark M. Hennelly, Jr.)
Echoes of Dracula: Racial Politics and the Failure of Segregated Spaces in Matheson's I Am Legend (Kathy Davis Patterson)
Dracula and the Afterlife: A Psychological Explanation (Jack D. Maser)
The People of Bram Stoker's Transylvania (Duncan Light)
Number 8 (2006)
The Children of the Night:Stoker's Dreadful Reading and the Plot of Dracula (Dick Collins)
The Use of Count Famous in "Buffy vs. Dracula" (Tara Elliott)
The coin of our realm: Blood and Images in Dracula 2000 (Alan Ambrisco & Lance Svehla)
Vlad Tepes and his Use of Punishments (Constantin Rezachevici)
Triply Filiated: Lestat and the Three Fathers (Maureen C. LaPerrière)
Review of Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian (Nikki White)
Number 9 (2007)
Rethinking the New Woman in Stoker's Fiction: Looking at Lady Athlyne (Carol A. Senf)
The Status of Vlad Tepes in Communist Romania: A Reassessment (Duncan Light)
Hamilton Deane and John C. Balderston: The Men Who "Re-vamped" Count Dracula (Michael McGlasson)
Quiero chupar tu sangre: A Comparison of the Spanish- and English-language Versions of Universal Studio's Dracula (Robert Harland)
Why am I so changed? Vampiric Selves and Gothic Doubleness in Wuthering Heights (Lakshmi Krishnan)
Review of John Marks, Fangland (Nikki White)
Number 10 (2008)
The Devil and Daniel Farson: How Did Bram Stoker Die? (Dick Collins)
The Models for Castle Dracula in Stoker's Sources on Transylvania (Marius Crisan)
Reinventing Irishness in Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" (Ana Gratiela Gal)
Holding on to Self: The Masculine Drive in "Investigating Jericho" and I Am Legend (Christina Castellana)
The Emancipation of Mina? The Portrayal of Mina in Stoker's Dracula and Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (Katharina Mewald)
Number 11 (2009)
Mother Dearest, Mother Deadliest: Object Relations Theory and the Trope of Failed Motherhood in Dracula (Brigitte Boudreau)
Fear and Laughing in Sunnydale: Buffy vs Dracula (Peter Golz)
When was Dracula First Translated into Romanian? (Duncan Light)
Vixens and Virgins in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irsh Novel: Representations of the Feminine in Bram Stoker's Dracula (Susan Parlour)
Number 12 (2010)
The Fear of Castration and Male Dread of Female Sexuality: The Theme of the 'vagina dentata' in Dracula (Laura Linneman)
Our Lady of the Telegraph: Mina as Medieval Cyborg in "Dracula" (Eric Brownell)
All in the Family: A Retrospective Diagnosis of R.M. Renfield in "Dracula" (Elizabeth Winter)
True Blood: The Vampire as a Multiracial Critique on Post-Race Ideology (Nicole Rabin)
Vamping up Sex: Audience, Age & Portrayals of Sexuality in Vampire Narratives (Melissa Ames)
Vampirism and the Visual Medium: The Role of Gender within Pop Culture's Latest Slew of Vampires (Kristopher Broyles)
Number 13 (2011)
Vampires Do(n't) Exist: Using Past and Present Technologies to Make Dracula Real (Holly J. McBee)
Sexing the Book: The Paratexts of Bram Stoker's Dracula (Brigitte Boudreau)
Mormon Female Gothic: Blood, Birth, and the Twilight Saga (Lisa Lampert-Weissig)
Between Reason and Faith: Breaking the Status Quo in Stoker's Dracula (Erin Newcomb)
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